#circa 1944

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Vought OS2U Kingfisher being hoisted aboard USS Missouri (BB-53) in 1944, and recovery operations from USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) in mid-1943 🎥 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/50It5k332Jk

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Grupo de Crianças na Ladeira da Misericórdia - Centro Histórico de Olinda Em 1944 (Segunda Fotografia Colorizada).

Coleção Antonio Oliveira.

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“Of course you know, this means war...”

- New Mexico

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- 𝙁𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙎𝙘𝙝𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙢 & 𝙇𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙒𝙪𝙨𝙩 ♡⚢ (1942-1944)

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The first missile of the world!!!!

The first ballistic missile was the V-2 rocket, which was created in Nazi Germany during World War II. It was invented by Walter Dornberger and Wernher von Braun, and was first used in 1944, to attack London, England. Between the first launch and the end of the war in Europe, over 3000 V-2 rockets were fired against Allied cities. A decade later, the Soviet Union and the United States had designed Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), which were able to reach the other side of the world.

A "ballistic" missile needs to be guided for short periods of its flight, but it mainly follows a ballistic flightpath. This means that its trajectory is most affected by gravity. Ballistic missiles are designed to be launched at such a high angle that they leave the atmosphere before returning to Earth. Even V-2 rockets would reach the edge of space.

What made the V-2 rocket different from earlier missiles was that it used a liquid fuel. Rockets that use solid fuel, like gunpowder, need to draw in a large amount of oxygen from the air around them. Instead, the V-2 contained a tank of very cold, liquefied oxygen to burn the fuel. The liquid that was burned was a mix of alcohol and water.

When World War II was near an end in Europe, Wernher von Braun and Walter Dornberger surrendered to the United States military. Other engineers who worked on the V-2 construction were captured, and taken to the United States and the Soviet Union. Many V-2 parts were collected, and brought back to the allies' home countries.

Wernher von Braun, Walter Dornberger, and many others were taken to the United States in a mission called Operation Paperclip. They were set to work designing missiles and rockets, including ones for the NASA space program.

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P-61A 42-5580 Wabash Cannon-Ball IV of the 425th Night Fighter Squadron. France, 1944.

➤P-61 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/EjfRv9vi0D0

➤WW2 VIDEOS: https://dronescapes.video/WW2